Dinosaur trivia

Stitch · **Reply #100 on:** May 26, 2007, 07:55:34 AM

Highly developed sense of smell (able to sniff carcasses from over great distances).

Teeth could crush bones (extract as much food as possible from carcasses).

Evidence that it walked instead of ran.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #101 on:** May 27, 2007, 02:58:26 AM

Correct!

Your turn, Stitch.

NewOrder · **Reply #102 on:** August 28, 2007, 09:56:51 AM

Someone should revive this section, it's been inactive for too long

Stitch · **Reply #103 on:** August 28, 2007, 10:31:29 AM

My bad. I forgot all about this.

Here's an easy one: name three theories about why the dinosaurs died out.

NewOrder · **Reply #104 on:** August 28, 2007, 12:34:15 PM

The Asteroid in the Yucatan Peninsula

Great Volcanic Activity

The last straw on the camels back: Two asteroid crashes(yucatan and another probably in the indian ocean), great volcanic and seismic activity, disease, etc.

Stitch · **Reply #105 on:** August 28, 2007, 09:10:58 PM

That's three.

Your turn.

NewOrder · **Reply #106 on:** August 31, 2007, 12:10:17 PM

Thanks Stitch

Name two triasic dinosaurs who have been recently discarded as being carnivores (this means two meat-eaters, who are now thought to have been leaf-eaters)

Achillobator · **Reply #107 on:** August 31, 2007, 01:24:53 PM

Is it Aetonyx and Eucnemesaurus? *crosses fingers*

NewOrder · **Reply #108 on:** September 10, 2007, 06:52:52 PM

I wasn't thinking about those two, but I'll check and if they're right it's your turn.

NewOrder · **Reply #109 on:** September 10, 2007, 06:59:22 PM

I'll accept Eucnemesaurus but not Aetonyx since it's a Jurassic species and not a Triasic one. The two dino's I'm thinking of are some of the most famous triasic dino's. (You only need to guess one, of course)

Achillobator · **Reply #110 on:** September 11, 2007, 08:47:17 PM

Quote from: NewOrder,Sep 10 2007 on 05:59 PM

I'll accept Eucnemesaurus but not Aetonyx since it's a Jurassic species and not a Triasic one. The two dino's I'm thinking of are some of the most famous triasic dino's. (You only need to guess one, of course)

I am going to go out on a limb and say plateosaurus.

NewOrder · **Reply #111 on:** September 12, 2007, 03:16:40 PM

Nope, I might be wrong but Plateosaurus has always been considered a herbivore. The one's I'm thinking of, are quite famous and only recently have changed from carnivores to herbivores.

Malte279 · **Reply #112 on:** September 12, 2007, 03:38:56 PM

I heard rumors about Dimetrodon being reconsidered as a herbivore rather than a carnivore. Personally I'd have to know more details to give a judgement on that theory. Dimetrodon's teeth sure don't look like they were made for food that doesn't twitch anymore. Anyway, is Dimetrodon the species you are refering to?

DarkHououmon · **Reply #113 on:** September 12, 2007, 03:46:17 PM

Quote from: Malte279,Sep 12 2007 on 03:38 PM

I heard rumors about Dimetrodon being reconsidered as a herbivore rather than a carnivore. Personally I'd have to know more details to give a judgement on that theory. Dimetrodon's teeth sure don't look like they were made for food that doesn't twitch anymore. Anyway, is Dimetrodon the species you are refering to?

I seriously doubt Dimetrodon is one of the answers. Dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur at all, nor did it live in the Triassic Period. Dimetrodon was a primitive synapsid (the group mammals belong to) that lived in the Permian Era, the Era just before the Mesozoic Era(Era of the dinosaurs).

Malte279 · **Reply #114 on:** September 12, 2007, 04:10:52 PM

^ All this is true Kacie. I just don't know many species of whose eating habits there are any second thoughts

DarkHououmon · **Reply #115 on:** September 12, 2007, 04:16:00 PM

Same here. I could look in my dinosaur book (published in 2006 or 2007). Maybe it'll have an answer.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #116 on:** September 12, 2007, 04:22:10 PM

Is the second dinosaur thecodontosaurus?

NewOrder · **Reply #117 on:** September 13, 2007, 04:13:26 PM

Thecodontosaurus did rise up a few doubts but that's not the one I was looking for. I'll give a few hints, it was found on Moon Valley, and it's one of the most famous Triasic dino's.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #118 on:** September 13, 2007, 04:24:03 PM

Eoraptor?

NewOrder · **Reply #119 on:** September 13, 2007, 05:58:02 PM

That's right, the one's that have recently been recategorised as herbivores were Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus. See, it's not really that hard.

Well, Achillobator and DarkHououmon decide between each other who's next.